Michelle Stratton

Personal Introduction

Michelle is a clear and elegant communicator. She writes and speaks to courts and decision-makers in a way that precisely gets to the point and compellingly explains why her client should win. She is an appellate specialist, but equally at ease briefing and arguing in trial courts, arbitrations, and mediations—or anywhere there’s an audience in need of persuading. This requires sharp intellect, attention to detail, and hard work. After earning a 4.0 in college, Michelle graduated first in her law school class, having scored the top grade in 20 courses. It also requires superior writing skills, refined by practice. Michelle’s student law review article was deemed best in the nation by The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing. As a Bristow Fellow and law clerk, she studied hundreds of briefs, learning what works and what doesn’t. And in her years of private practice, she has personally written scores of briefs at every level of federal and state courts in a wide array of substantive legal areas. Oral communication skills are likewise essential, and Michelle has honed those by diverse on-her-feet experiences. She has argued appeals before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and D.C. Circuits, the Texas Supreme Court, Texas’s First Court of Appeals, and appellate arbitrators, as well as dispositive motions in federal and state trial courts. She has taught legal writing to lawyers and law students. And she regularly teaches the Bible to women in her local church. Clients have a story to tell. Michelle tells it well, and she tells it to win.